Today's convocation will be held in Harris Cinema. Philip
Morrison, the Noyce Visiting Professor, will speak about other planets.

Don't forget tomorrow's brown-bag lunch on ``History in Hypertext''.
I hope to see many of you there.

I expect you to show up for your meetings today. We'll discuss your
drafts (although I won't have read them yet).

Wayne Twitchell (who came along on our field trip) is looking for
an assistant for simple multimedia work (webpages, director, photoshop
etc.) The job would be about 5 hours per week. Are any of you
interested.

I've made a change to the syllabus (or I'm about to make such a change)
so No readings for this weekend!. You may want to work on
your papers.

Is there any interest in working together to build a fictional
hypertext from one of the works in
Project Gutenberg (or other
public domain text)?

Rebecca and I have observed that some of the difficulties we've been
having in discussion stem from a dynamic definition of hypertext.
Clearly, we won't be able to get very far (or very deep) until we
have careful definitions. We'll spend some time today working on
and refining definitions of hypertext.

Since we'll need to talk about a variety of things that are somewhat
hypertextual (e.g., the ``literary hypertexts'') but that may lack
some things we consider core (e.g., empowering the user to add links),
we may want to come up with a web of related terms.

There seems to have been some interest in my throwaway comment
about the growing controversy over students posting their class
notes. Let's consider the issue, both in terms of the current
``state of the art'' an in terms of the relationship to more
hypertextual forms (i.e. would your reactions be different if
the students were posting ``hypernotes''?).